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PaperclipPerfector  7d ago (text post)   2583 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025

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Mostly got small or useful stuff, some art prints, some handheld tool batteries, a few gift cards. All appreciated, but not really interesting. The real toy one was Project Silverfish, kinda a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-like with graphics by the way of The Witness (cw: furry scaly inheritors of humanity). It's astoundingly unforgiving and still in beta, but been pretty enjoyable if you don't mind the occasional getting domed by a patrol from a faction you didn't even realize was on the current map.

Gave the SO a new monitor - OLEDs really are amazing and have come down a lot in price - and seems to be serving okay, though only after purchasing it found that the 'adjustable stand' was really just five degrees and an absolutely zero vertical control.

Most of the other gifts to family or friends are pretty unexciting. I've got access to a sublimation printer and some weirder-shaped heat tools, so replacing damaged or badly-faded and no-longer-manufactured coffee mugs or other easy-to-find blanks is a fun parlor trick, especially now that post-processing tools (AI or otherwise) have gotten so good, but most of them won't have any meaning outside of the recipient.

Uh, helped a coworker get his daughter and son-in-law some desktops together, which was a lot more !!fun!! than expected given current RAM pricing. I was able to pull some tricks to get them 32 GB each without paying a kidney, but wow that entire thing was a mess.

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